Morena announces another poll on AMLO’s electoral reform

Morena, the party of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, announced Thursday that it will conduct another survey on electoral reform, an issue promoted by the government itself, and challenged the president of the National Electoral Institute (INE), Lorenzo Córdova, to accept the results.
The announcement comes amid the controversy generated by a measurement made by the INE itself about the president’s electoral reform. 
This exercise indicates that a large number of people support the proposal, so Morena accused the INE of trying to hide those figures. In this regard, the INE affirms that the survey was never hidden, that it shows the perception that existed when it was raised and that, in any case, it also exhibits support for its own work.

Faced with this, the national leader of Morena, Mario Delgado, issued a message tonight in which he said that the party will send another measurement with a private company and that its results will be made public next week.
“I challenge Lorenzo Cordova to have the honesty to recognize the results and, if the people of Mexico support this reform, to recognize that it is a favorable reform for our country and for our democracy,” Delgado said.

We will send another survey to know the opinion of the people on the #ReformaElectoral and challenge @lorenzocordovav that, if the people of Mexico support it, recognize the results and accept that it is a favorable reform for the democracy of our country. pic.twitter.com/KR5ZUfOF9I
— Mario Delgado (@mario_delgado) November 4, 2022

The electoral reform promoted by López Obrador proposes, among other points, to eliminate local electoral institutes, transform the INE, reduce the number of its counselors and that these and the electoral magistrates are elected through the vote of the citizenship.
Opposition parties and various analysts believe that several of these changes would be negative for the country, since they would reduce the autonomy of the electoral authority and affect a functioning electoral system.
Being a constitutional reform, the president’s initiative needs a qualified majority in the chambers of Congress, something that forces him to obtain support from at least part of the opposition. On Thursday, Interior Secretary Adán Augusto López acknowledged that the government is negotiating the issue with the PRI.
Read more: Adán Augusto acknowledges that electoral reform is being negotiated with the PRI
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Original source in Spanish